Soles For Life wants your used shoes

The local nonprofit group donates the collected shoes to Edge Outreach, an international faith-based nonprofit headquartered in Kentucky. Edge Outreach sells the shoes to an exporter, which then sells them to vendors in developing countries. The vendors sell the shoes to people at affordable prices, according to Soles For Life.

Edge Outreach uses the funds from the sale of donated shoes to build inexpensive water purification systems, which can produce 10,000 gallons of clean water per day, according to Soles For Life.

For more information on Soles For Life, including drop-off locations, visit the group's website, www.soles

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